Improvement in bedstead fastenings



EDWARD F. GILBERT, OF LYONS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 108,472, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD FASTENINGS.

'The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, EDWARD F. GILBERT, of Lyons, Wayne count-y and State of New York, have invented certain iniprovements in Bedstead Fastenings, of which the following is a specieation.

The objeetpf my improvement is to furnish a hook for fastening the side-rails of a bedstead to the head and foot-boards, that will be sinple in its construction, strong, cheap, easily applied, and that will have plenty of draught. y

Description.

Figure l represents a side view of the hook as applied.

Figure 2 represents a top or edge view as applied.

Corresponding letters denote separate parts:

a the bed-post.

b the side-rail.

e thecleat over the hook.

d l the hook.

e the wedge or key.

m the groove inthe wedge or key.

o the llange on the hook tting into the groove m in the wedge.

:t the flange on the wedge rnnn-ing in the groove s across the side-rail b r lr. the flanges on' the ends of the wedge c.

s the slot on the under side of the hook d.

L the mortise in post a for the hook.

i n the pin over which the hook catches.

q' the dowel in the end of rail b.

h the morticein the post a, for the dowel q.

'The wedge e is intended to lie withthe ange rnnning lengthwise in the groove across the rail b.

The hook d sits across the wedge e, with the' slot s over the wedge, and with the s'mall flange o sitting in the groove m in the wedge.

Over across the hook goes the cleat c between the wedge and the hook end,and is made fast to the rail b.

When the wedge is driven down the hook is drawn back and the strain taken oli from the cleat by the flange running in the gmove across the rail. When driven up, the llange aetsl to hold the wedge to the cleat, and the small liange running `in the groove in the wedge acts to throw the hook out.

The flanges r r, across the ends ofthe wedge e, are for the purpose of enabling the wedge to he driven in and ont with ease.

Claim.

a bed fastening.

f EDWARD F. GILBERT. Witnesses A. J. OoWLEs, J. W. VAN ETTEN. 

